Pollution
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Environment
Environment LondonRace Against Pollution: Who Will Be First to Have No Private Cars, Amsterdam or Oslo?
A groundbreaking green change is expected to happen in the year that’s just around the corner, as two capital cities work towards being the very first to go car-free: Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and Norway’s Oslo.
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Society
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Environment
Environment Switzerland187 Countries Agree to Stricter Rules on Plastic Waste Trade
The United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland has announced a new deal, signed by almost all the world’s countries, that restricts shipping lower-quality plastic waste to developing countries – to better protect humans and the environment.
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Environment
Environment The NetherlandsThe Ocean Cleanup is Now Cleaning Rivers to Fight Plastic Pollution at the Source
The Ocean Cleanup has developed a new strategy to stop plastic waste from entering our oceans and harming marine animals, by removing trash directly from the source: rivers, or as CEO Boyan Slat likes to call it, “The arteries that carry waste from land to the…
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Environment
Environment The PhilippinesSuper Typhoons Make Farmer in the Philippines Grow Bamboo for Toothbrushes
After growing up watching his father barely make a living through slash-and-burn agriculture in the Philippines province of Sultan Kudarat, Mark Sultan Gersava became a bamboo “chief executive farmer” to help other farmers earn more – while straying away from plastic pollution.
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Society
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Environment
EnvironmentMost Coloradans Want Car Makers to Offer More Electric Vehicles
The government of the US State Colorado has launched a Zero-Emission Vehicles policy which requires car makers to bring more electric vehicles to the market, joining ten other states in their plan to limit traffic-related pollution and gas emissions.
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Environment
EnvironmentWe Can All Cut Down Microfibre Plastics with the Turn of a Knob on Our Washing Machines
Scientists have discovered that each time we opt for a standard cycle on our washing machines instead of a delicate wash, we stop 800,000 plastic microfibres from entering our oceans and being ingested by marine animals.
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Environment
EnvironmentCleanup System Seems to Work, Gets Plastic Out of Ocean
The Ocean Cleanup launched a 2,000-foot-long self-contained system last year, and the team behind it are now praising the system’s major success in picking up plastic, including microplastics as small as 1mm in diameter, in the world’s oceans’ largest plastic accumulation zone: the Great Pacific Garbage…
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Technology
